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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by another-dave on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:13PM (#26544503)
I'd prefer to recognise immediately that there are no results & reframe my query that to start to scan down through the results, maybe click into one & start to read only _then_ to realise it doesn't relate, back to Google — "oh, they didn't actually search for what I told them to search for" & then reach the same point they could've given me at the start.

At least there should be a checkbox for "make a best guess when limited results" / "give me my exact search query" (maybe there is somewhere & I've missed this)

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by lmm on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:43AM (#26551807)
> At least there should be a checkbox for "make a best guess when limited results" / "give me my exact search query" (maybe there is somewhere & I've missed this)

There is, one of the drop-downs gives you the option of "all results" or "verbatim".

It doesn't actually work, of course.

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